The Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media.

We examine gender bias in media by tallying the number of men and women quoted in news text, using the Gender Gap Tracker, a software system we developed specifically for this purpose. The Gender Gap Tracker downloads and analyzes the online daily publication of seven English-language Canadian news...

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Autores principales:	Fatemeh Torabi Asr, Mohammad Mazraeh, Alexandre Lopes, Vasundhara Gautam, Junette Gonzales, Prashanth Rao, Maite Taboada
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bc7afc5739b2404492ab028778c547622021-12-02T20:05:44ZThe Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0245533https://doaj.org/article/bc7afc5739b2404492ab028778c547622021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245533https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203We examine gender bias in media by tallying the number of men and women quoted in news text, using the Gender Gap Tracker, a software system we developed specifically for this purpose. The Gender Gap Tracker downloads and analyzes the online daily publication of seven English-language Canadian news outlets and enhances the data with multiple layers of linguistic information. We describe the Natural Language Processing technology behind this system, the curation of off-the-shelf tools and resources that we used to build it, and the parts that we developed. We evaluate the system in each language processing task and report errors using real-world examples. Finally, by applying the Tracker to the data, we provide valuable insights about the proportion of people mentioned and quoted, by gender, news organization, and author gender. Data collected between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2020 shows that, in general, men are quoted about three times as frequently as women. While this proportion varies across news outlets and time intervals, the general pattern is consistent. We believe that, in a world with about 50% women, this should not be the case. Although journalists naturally need to quote newsmakers who are men, they also have a certain amount of control over who they approach as sources. The Gender Gap Tracker relies on the same principles as fitness or goal-setting trackers: By quantifying and measuring regular progress, we hope to motivate news organizations to provide a more diverse set of voices in their reporting.Fatemeh Torabi AsrMohammad MazraehAlexandre LopesVasundhara GautamJunette GonzalesPrashanth RaoMaite TaboadaPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 1, p e0245533 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Fatemeh Torabi Asr Mohammad Mazraeh Alexandre Lopes Vasundhara Gautam Junette Gonzales Prashanth Rao Maite Taboada The Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media.
description	We examine gender bias in media by tallying the number of men and women quoted in news text, using the Gender Gap Tracker, a software system we developed specifically for this purpose. The Gender Gap Tracker downloads and analyzes the online daily publication of seven English-language Canadian news outlets and enhances the data with multiple layers of linguistic information. We describe the Natural Language Processing technology behind this system, the curation of off-the-shelf tools and resources that we used to build it, and the parts that we developed. We evaluate the system in each language processing task and report errors using real-world examples. Finally, by applying the Tracker to the data, we provide valuable insights about the proportion of people mentioned and quoted, by gender, news organization, and author gender. Data collected between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2020 shows that, in general, men are quoted about three times as frequently as women. While this proportion varies across news outlets and time intervals, the general pattern is consistent. We believe that, in a world with about 50% women, this should not be the case. Although journalists naturally need to quote newsmakers who are men, they also have a certain amount of control over who they approach as sources. The Gender Gap Tracker relies on the same principles as fitness or goal-setting trackers: By quantifying and measuring regular progress, we hope to motivate news organizations to provide a more diverse set of voices in their reporting.
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author	Fatemeh Torabi Asr Mohammad Mazraeh Alexandre Lopes Vasundhara Gautam Junette Gonzales Prashanth Rao Maite Taboada
author_facet	Fatemeh Torabi Asr Mohammad Mazraeh Alexandre Lopes Vasundhara Gautam Junette Gonzales Prashanth Rao Maite Taboada
author_sort	Fatemeh Torabi Asr
title	The Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media.
title_short	The Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media.
title_full	The Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media.
title_fullStr	The Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media.
title_full_unstemmed	The Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media.
title_sort	gender gap tracker: using natural language processing to measure gender bias in media.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/bc7afc5739b2404492ab028778c54762
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The Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media.

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